Personally I generally don’t hate or blame the people that go into the meatgrinder that is the military as enlisted soldiers. I hate the systems that drive people to desperation where the idea of potentially being required to take someone else’s life to gain some modicum of survival, to go from a system of unbearable poverty to a system of violence as identity and to be a pawn for the wealthy to sacrifice for natural resources under the guise of national defense and patriotism and then disposed of once you’re no longer useful.
Except for the one the majority of military members aren’t in poverty or driven primarily by monetary concerns, and even if they were its no excuse if I killed my elderly neighbor to steal all their stuff to pay my rent that explains but doesn’t excuse my actions. Hell “leftists” aren’t making the same excuses for those joining ICE despite ICE offering benefits and ICE not being as bad as the military.
yep thats the idea even though being a veteran is the opposite of that.
Personally I generally don’t hate or blame the people that go into the meatgrinder that is the military as enlisted soldiers. I hate the systems that drive people to desperation where the idea of potentially being required to take someone else’s life to gain some modicum of survival, to go from a system of unbearable poverty to a system of violence as identity and to be a pawn for the wealthy to sacrifice for natural resources under the guise of national defense and patriotism and then disposed of once you’re no longer useful.
Except for the one the majority of military members aren’t in poverty or driven primarily by monetary concerns, and even if they were its no excuse if I killed my elderly neighbor to steal all their stuff to pay my rent that explains but doesn’t excuse my actions. Hell “leftists” aren’t making the same excuses for those joining ICE despite ICE offering benefits and ICE not being as bad as the military.